Pack Your Trunk: Immigration to Monroe County

Title: "Pack Your Trunk: Immigration to Monroe County"

Description: Students learn about the experience of being an immigrant, from deciding to leave the home country to establishing a new home in Monroe County. Students will experience the immigrants' challenges of packing for the journey, traveling great distances, and establishing a new home on the frontier.

Goals:

Personalize the immigrant experience for each student

Broaden understanding of who settled Monroe County

Experience choices facing an immigrant that require problem-solving skills on the part of the student

Investigate materials that tell about the past, creating a concrete expression for the abstract concept of "the immigration experience.

Wisconsin Model Academic Standards
History Performance Standards Related to the Program
Grade 4

A.4.7 Identify connections between the local community and other places in Wisconsin, the United States, and the world

B.4.1 Identify and examine various sources of information that are used for constructing an understanding of the past, such as artifacts, documents, letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral presentations, graphs, and charts

B.4.4 Compare and contrast changes in contemporary life with life in the past by looking at social, economic, political, and cultural roles played by individuals and groups

B.4.8 Compare past and present technologies related to energy, transportation, and communications and describe the effects of technological change, either beneficial or harmful, on people and the environment

B.4.9 Describe examples of cooperation and interdependence among individuals, groups, and nations

C.4.1 Identify and explain the individual’s responsibilities to family, peers, and the community, including the need for civility and respect for diversity

E.4.2 Explain the influence of factors such as family, neighborhood, personal interests, language, likes and dislikes, and accomplishments on individual identity and development

E.4.3 Describe how families are alike and different, comparing characteristics such as size, hobbies, celebrations, where families live, and how they make a living

E.4.4 Describe the ways in which ethnic cultures influence the daily lives of people

E.4.14 Describe how differences in cultures may lead to understanding or misunderstanding among people

E.4.15 Describe instances of cooperation and interdependence among individuals, groups, and nations, such as helping others in famines and disasters.

Common Core State Standards for Literacy in All Subjects (K-5) Related to the Program
Grade 4